A total of 1496 school children aged 8-18 years (79.1% boys) participated in this study. Prevalence of obesity and overweight was estimated by using three different growth standards. Revised IAP 2015 growth standards detected more obese and overweight children than WHO 2007 and IOTF standards.

outer percentiles with potential morbidity may be flawed if we use WHO standards. In a recent study from Norway and Belgium, proportions of the healthy children outside the 2 SDs of WHO standards were different than expected. Furthermore, Finnish children are 0.2 to 0.8 SD taller on average than the WHO standards. Thus, the concept of “similarity” of heights among children from different ethnic...

The World Health Organization (WHO) pioneered the Multicentre Growth Reference Study (MGRS) from 1997 to 2003 and generated a set of ‘Universal’ Child Growth Standards for children aged 0 to 5 years. Drawing on various observations and epidemiological studies,1,2 including the demonstration of similar growth patterns in breastfed infants from different ethnic origins,3 WHO MGRS growth experts w...

BACKGROUND The National Center for Health Statistics/World Health Organization (NCHS/WHO) reference is considered unsuitable for assessing the nutritional status of breastfed children. It is gradually being replaced by the WHO Child Growth Standards in many countries. OBJECTIVE To assess the implications of adopting the WHO Child Growth Standards to classify Indonesian children according to n...

BACKGROUND Early childhood is a critical stage of physical and cognitive growth that forms the foundation of future wellbeing. Stunted growth is presented in one of every 4 children worldwide and contributes to developmental impairment and under-five mortality. Better understanding of early growth patterns should allow for early detection and intervention in malnutrition. We aimed to characteri...

OBJECTIVE To assess the implications of adopting the World Health Organization 2006 growth standards in combination with current diagnostic criteria in emergency and non-emergency child feeding programmes. DESIGN Secondary analysis of data from three standardised nutrition surveys (n=2555) for prevalence of acute malnutrition, using weight for height z score (<-2 and <-3) and percentage of th...

OBJECTIVES To assess the proportion of children being stunted and underweight-for-age at 3, 9 and 15 months in Lambaréné, Gabon, using the WHO child growth standards released in 2006 as compared with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) 2000 and the National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS) 1978 child growth charts/references. DESIGN AND SETTING Prospective birth cohort in ...